Quotes About Philosophy

0 thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with predestin'd evil round Enmesh, and then impute my fall to sin.

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

Great intellects are skeptical.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell."

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.

My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.

Truth has no beginning.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

One thought fills immensity.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labour of thought.

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'

What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.